A39675:1553
Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man
Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened, its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved, the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in Heaven and Hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied, divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls, both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined, the invaluable preciousness of humane souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered, and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonable and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed / by John Flavel ...Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened, its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved, the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in Heaven and Hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applyed, divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls, both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined, the invaluable preciousness of humane souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered, and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonable and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed / by John Flavel ...
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The third way to Hell discovered.
1III. A vast multitude of precious Souls are lost for ever, by following the Examples, and being carried away with the course of this World. 'Tis indeed a poor excuse, a silly Argument, that the multitude do as we do; yet as Junius rightly observes, Mens Consciences take Sanctuary here, and they think themselves safe in it: for thus they reason, If I ⟨p. 407⟩do as the generality do,2 I shall speed no worse than they speed; and certainly God is more merciful than to suffer the greatest part of Mankind to perish: they resolve to follow the beaten road, let it lead whither it will.
1III. A vast multitude of precious Souls are lost for ever, by following the Examples, and being carried away with the course of this World. 'Tis indeed a poor excuse, a silly Argument, that the multitude do as we do; yet as Iunius rightly observes, Mens Consciences take Sanctuary here, and they think themselves safe in it: for thus they reason, If I ⟨p. 407⟩do as the generality do,2 I shall speed no worse than they speed; and certainly God is more merciful than to suffer the greatest part of Mankind to perish: they resolve to follow the beaten road, let it lead whither it will.
- 1Quam frigida & jejuna sit eorum desensio, qui exemplo, &c. potentiorum see tutos pu[…] Jun. Pa•••. lib. 2.